Advancing Safe, Large-Scale CO₂ Storage with MuPSI

Integrated Modeling to Assess Geomechanical Risks in CO₂ Storage

As the EU aims for climate neutrality by 2050, gigatonne-scale CO₂ storage hubs are essential. However, interactions between multiple storage sites can lead to pressure interference, potentially causing fault slip and increasing seismic and leakage risks. MuPSI addresses this challenge by developing advanced modeling tools to assess risks at regional, project, and fault scales. The project aims to identify low-risk storage locations, ensuring safe and efficient CO₂ storage development to meet EU targets for 2030 and 2040.

MuPSI project structured into three overarching pillars that reflect the project's goals, activities, and impacts:

Integrated Technology Development for Scalable CO₂ Storage

Develops multi-scale modeling tools to assess geomechanical risks at regional, project, and fault scales
Closes key technology gaps with new prototype models, software, and workflows
Advances technology readiness from TRL 5 (validated) to TRL 6 (demonstrated in relevant environments)
Supports safe, efficient gigatonne-scale CO₂ storage deployment

Industry-Driven Solutions and Real-World Application

Validates tools and workflows through two real-world case studies with industry partners
Ensures industry-compatible functionality and secure handling of confidential data
Enables faster, more reliable evaluation of storage scale-up scenarios
Improves cost-efficiency, energy-efficiency, and infrastructure investment returns across CCS projects

Stakeholder Engagement and Capacity Building

Promotes gigatonne-scale CO₂ storage and clustering across CCS networks, consortia, and policy platforms
Builds knowledge-sharing partnerships with industry, NGOs, academia, and policymakers
Develops innovative training modules and formal curricula for industry and postgraduate education
Supports CCS workforce development through two PhDs and two postdoctoral fellowships

Funding agencies

The MuPSI project (Multiscale Pressure-Stress Impacts on fault integrity for multi-site regional CO₂ storage) is awarded through the Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CET-P) project number CETP-FP-2023-00298, with funding provided by the RCN Research Council of Norway, Scottish Enterprise, NWO Dutch Research Council, AEI-Agencia Estatal de Investigación, and US DoE, with contributions from Storegga Ltd, Equinor ASA, Norske Shell AS, and EBN Capital BV.